How to display designer from code

Andrew Bond

I am new to FastReport and wondered if anyone can help me please? I am using the Standard Edition.

1) How do I get the Report Designer to appear from code? Currently I can only get the designer to appear from the FR Demo program.

2) And what is the name of the executable associated with it that I need to ship with my program?

Thanks in anticipation.

Andrew

gordk

andrew after installing the fr components you will find them on your delphi component pallet
to your delphi form add a report component and a designer component.
typically code would look like this
from a button click event.
frxreport1.designreport;
you do not have to add any exes as the frx componentsused are compiled into your application .exe

Andrew Bond

Thanks for the response. Somehow I expected the designer to be a separate app!

>> to your delphi form add a report component and a designer component.

I'm using C++Builder 2007.

I added a TfrxDesigner component to my form, named it 'Designer', and without doing anything else, ran my app and got a run-time error:

'Error reading Designer->MemoParentFont: Property MemoParentFont does not exist'

Should this happen?

Note that I have TfrxReport and two TfrxUserDataSet components on my form - that's all (from FR). I am loading my report from harddisk.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Andrew

PS Despite these teething problems, I am very impressed by FR - should do exactly what I want once I have mastered it features. Much better than Rave Reports (from which I've switched) - and the technical support is most helpful